Michael Benzehabe Quotes

She closed the distance between them and gave him a tentative hug. He was liberally cologned, with a scent that incited bewildering memories. She circled him, not knowing why. She had only met him a few weeks back, yet tonight, something about him triggered old memories, of a time, a person.
Maybe not.
What she did know, he lacked that special ingredient that moved her. Dull as ditch water. He was sufficiently polite, but that was about all she could say. –Michael Benzehabe, from the novel Unassimilated ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294 ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff. ~ Michael Welch

If only we had the ability to live life as though it were so new or so close to the end that all we could do is give and show and become love. It seems that beginnings and endings teach us about this kind of love. It is in between that we tend to forget. ~ Michael Spehn

CHEAPO HUMANOID HOLOGRAPHIC FISHHOOKS ,SLAMMERS , AND VICES .STONES ,PUSHING MEANMUGGING MOTHERFUCKERS ALWAYS SNEAKIN IN THEIR FACE ~ Steven Michael Pace

In the two weeks following the All-Star Game, baseball was largely upstaged by the events of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal, including Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's seven perfect 10.0 scores, Bruce Jenner's record-setting decathlon triumph, and the five gold medals won by U.S. boxers Howard Davis Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Leo Randolph, and brothers Leon and Michael Spinks - the mightiest performance of any American boxing team in Olympic history. ~ Dan Epstein

There are some adventures not worth having. ~ Michael Scott

This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch ... , is a sacrament. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control. ~ Michael Reeves

I don't know when the last time I had fried chicken was. Must've been years. As soon as I think about eating it, I think about the stomach ache I'd get. ~ Michael Jai White

I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking up the phone. Sometimes I even dialed your parents' number but then I wondered what I'd say to you. We had left it too long. How would we ever get around the silence, which was like an elephant sitting in the room? ~ Michael Robotham

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~ Michael Cibenko

Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness. ~ Michael D. O'Brien

Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold. ~ Michael Scott

Every single person I've seen in the past few days asks me about the Leg.
How is it?
How's the Leg?
The Leg is attached. Thanks for asking. There's The Leg right there. It's on display, always outside of the sheets and blanket, although the whole thing is still so wrapped up it looks like I borrowed The Leg from some ancient Egyptian mummy.
How's The Leg?
It seems a bit mummyish, thanks. ~ Michael Grant

We'd hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn't worried much about it, because we'd thought we had all the time in the world. Love had seemed so final and so dull
love was what ruined our parents. Love had delivered them to a life of mortgage payments and household repairs; to unglamorous jobs and the flourescent aisles of a supermarket at two in the afternoon. We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves. It sounded possible. If we didn't rush or grab, if we didn't panic, a love both challenging and nurturing might appear. If the person was imaginable, then the person could exist. ~ Michael Cunningham

We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going ... When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future. ~ Michael Shurtleff

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success. ~ Michael Bay

The distortion of the truth bothers me. ~ Michael Jackson

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read. ~ Michael Dirda

impact the range of solutions you might want to implement. ~ Michael Watson

Blood a necklace on me all my life. ~ Michael Ondaatje

God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people. ~ Michael Masser

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus. ~ Michael Jordan

Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it. ~ Michael Bassey

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. ~ Michael Ledeen

If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late! ~ Michael Chabon

If getting into Heaven was based on interesting elevator conversation then there would be more suits lined up to Hell than the eye could ever see. ~ Michael Ebner

The new faith sought to break the human bond with magic nature, to disenchant the world of plants and animals by directing our attention to a single God in the sky. Yet Jehovah couldn't very well pretend the tree of knowledge didn't exist, not when generations of plant-worshiping pagans knew better. So the pagan tree is allowed to grow even in Eden, though ringed around now with a strong taboo. Yes, there is spiritual knowledge in nature, the new God is acknowledging, and its temptations are fierce, but I am fiercer still. Yield to it, and you will be punished. So unfolds the drug war's first battle. ~ Michael Pollan

I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn't bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white. ~ Michael Muller

I didn't ask to be saved ~ Michael Thomas Ford

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire. ~ Michael S. Horton

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual. ~ Michael Palin

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year - and setting their compensation for themselves - are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages. ~ Michael Harrington

Michael Jackson, the 49ers and the Lakers - that's what I know about the '80s. ~ Dule Hill

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view. ~ Michael Nyqvist

If you look close enough, you'll see paradise. So go get it! ~ Michael Dean Russell Jr.

We have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now" (V. 13). PAUL'S GREAT ~ Michael Caputo

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster. ~ John Carpenter

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage. ~ Michael Lewis

Being an American musician means being adventurous. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same. ~ Michael Jackson

The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an attraction for people who want to fight the Americans and their allies. It's far greater than anything Afghanistan was aftertheSoviets invaded. It's easy to get to, there's no trouble with languages. ~ Michael Scheuer